Sit in the corner

Waterloo Region Record

I recently watched with amusement and dismay a local news report of teachers picketing in Stratford. I just can’t fathom teachers with signs walking around singing “solidarity forever” — I don’t get it. What’s next — steel drums containing broken pallets burning outside the school board offices or Queen’s Park?

Teachers are told at teachers’ college (we have one in the family) that they are in the top five per cent of the population when it comes to intelligence, yet they resort to ancient, draconian methods to mount their protest. I saw those same tactics at the Ford motor plant in Talbotville 30 years ago, as indeed we’ve all seen many times over the years in many places.

But, really? These smart people can’t come up with anything more intelligent than withdrawing their services from the kids (make no mistake — that is their source of power) and walking around in the cold with signs singing unintelligent verse?

They have a legitimate beef with their benefactor of the last nine years, no question; we all do.

Give them all a dunce cap and have them sit in the corner, please, until they come up with something better.